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Donald Trump

Donald Trump (1946- ), also called The Donald, is a billionaire blowhard and American television actor. He is running for US president in 2016, making naked appeals to White racism. He has been leading in opinion polls among Republican voters for the past five months, since July 2015.

His supporters are mostly Whites without university degrees. They say they like him because he tells it like it is – meaning that, instead of racist dog whistles, he makes naked appeals to their racism:

Mexican Americans:

He sees Mexicans as bringing in crime when, in fact, the first generation is less criminal than the US as a whole.

He will build a wall between the US and Mexico and kick out 11 million undocumented immigrants – along with their US-born children.

He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

Muslims and Muslim Americans:

He said he saw thousands and thousands of Muslim Americans in Jersey City, New Jersey cheer the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Not true – but most of his supporters believe him.

Muslim Americans will be put on a government list.

He will keep an eye on certain mosques and might shut down some of them.

He will not allow any Muslims into the US, except for citizens, until, presumably, he can tell who is a terrorist and who is not.

Black Americans:

As a Birther, he demanded that President Obama produce his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in the US. Trump has refused to provide his own long-form birth certificate.

He said 81% of Whites murdered are killed by Blacks. In fact, the FBI says it is only 14%.

When his supporters beat up Mercutio Southall, who had been shouting “Black lives matter!” at his rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Trump said:

“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

No doubt worse is to come: just when you think he cannot get any worse, he gets worse.

The mainstream US press is now openly comparing him to Hitler. But they have also been giving him centre stage for months on end. It is sickening. MSNBC is almost becoming a Trump infomercial.

From the way they cover him, you would never know that Trump represents less than 10% of US voters.

His numbers, on average in national opinion polls, have been bumping between 20% and 30% of Republican voters since August. In 2014, only 26% of voters were Republican. That means Trump supporters make up 5% to 8% of all US voters. He has pulled into first place by being the most extreme of a fractured field of 14 candidates. In absolute terms, he is doing no better than Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side. The press sees Sanders as a long shot.

Trump’s views have always been present among Whites. The last person who ran for president who made such a naked appeal to their racism was George Wallace in 1968. He got only 13.5% of the vote. That is why the other candidates do not tell it like it is.

I don’t think the numbers add up for him. He consistently ranks low in second-choice polls, which make sense. He is such a polarizing figure, that whoever would consider voting for him is already on his side. There is nobody left for him to win over.

I agree. Everyone who is going to vote for him is already there. He’s not winning over new voters with this rhetoric.

As far as I’m concerned he’s a perfect example of the Republican Party. He’s the grand culmination of all the racist rhetoric they’ve been dog-whistling for the past thirty years. He just has no filter on what he says and is in it for the ratings.

Trump is a narcissist. He wants to be president to feed his ego. He doesn’t care about the United State, you, me, or anyone else in the world… not even a little bit. He says he’s not racist. You know what? I believe him. A racist would see something inherently different in various humans based on their race. I believe he sees all of humanity as equally irrelevant “things” that at best are “necessary evils” with something to offer him and at worst are impediments to his success.

I believe he is playing the character of a polarizing candidate because that’s where the vacuum was. Nobody else was appealing strongly to the racist and nationalist views of what is now his “base”. These are people that are afraid, ignorant, tired and desperately in need of someone to blame. I feel he has deliberately chosen and is carefully crafting his character because he believes that, at our core, humans are irrational enough to believe his rhetoric and elect him. Why wouldn’t he think that. How many stories have been done on “the media” and how people blindly believe and react to what they’re told. (There’s irony there somewhere.)

I truly hope that he is not elected. I have mixed feelings about fleeing the country if he is. On the one hand, I wouldn’t want to be associated with a country that would elect him. On the other hand, if we all flee, there’d be nobody left to provide checks & balances. He could toss out the constitution and declare himself “king of the world” (or whatever).

The only silver lining I can see coming from his candidacy is that closet racists will self-identify with “Trump 2016” bumper stickers and yard signage. If he loses, maybe we can round them all up and send them to… I’m kidding… that would be too ironic… even for me.

Honestly, Trump is and has always been a narcicisstic bastard who only gives a damn about himself,period. All the fame he’s had all these years has gone to his head, and he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking. He’s always been a loudmouth racist blowhard that’s full of s***. Most of the garbage that comes out of his mouth is just plain disgusting—especially when he claimed that brother should have gotten beat up just for opposing him at a rally. What the hell kind of candidate endorses that BS? I can’t wait for people to get sick of him so he can drop the hell on out of the race—he’s isn’t anywhere near qualified to be President of anything, besides his own company. The fact that there are some people who are taking him at all seriously is just plain darn sad and pathetic, and so is Trump himself.

“He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship”

Did he say that? If so, it shows a lack of understanding about presidential powers since the US President cannot overturn any part of the Constitution.

@squawk

“he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking”

But it is getting him closer to the Republican nomination. I wouldn’t rule him out yet. All it takes is a more crises involving immigrants like the San Bernadino shooting for him to say “I told you so” (just like the phony terrorist attack in Paris propelled the Front National to the top of the polls).

When I say, “He will do x”, I do not mean he will rule by personal edict. It is just a way of stating his intentions, the policies he favours. In practice, not all of them are workable. He shoots from the hip and does not carefully think through what he says.

In a best case scenario Trump does not get the Repub nomination and then decides to go Ross Perot and splits the Repub vote in the next election. Keep in mind that behind Trump we have the likes of Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Carly, and even Ted Cruz. Cognitive dissonance of the day: I heard a radio interview with Ted Cruz in which Ted used Trump to make himself (Cruz) sound moderate.

Donald Trump is simply more proof that Amerika still have an affinity for loud mouthed, vile, un-refined, actively ignorant, totalitarian leaning men like Trump. My personal proposal for him is to read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Perhaps this reading will assist him with the necessary and proper exposure to the benefits of change, where thinking or cognition is limited and idiocy is the direct result thereof.

Abagond, Trump is not the only loud mouth a’hole with the potential to damage the USA.

have you heard what Supreme Court Judge Scalia said about black students:

“The Supreme Court was hearing arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin.

Abigail Fisher, a white woman, sued the university after she was denied admissions, suggesting that the school’s consideration of race during the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment.

Scalia:
“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said, according to the court transcript. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.”

The brief Scalia referred to said, “Students with an interest in science who are admitted to a very competitive school via a large preference tend to drop out of the sciences at a much higher rate than do otherwise similar students who attend somewhat less competitive programs.”

Now, this b’ch Abigail Fisher, go upset because she got rejected by UT and because 47 other students with lower grades than her got in.

here is the breakdown of those 47 other students:

42 white people
4 Hispanic people
1 black person

but: 168 black and Hispanic students with higher grades than Abby were not admitted

So, 42 white kids with grades lower than hers gets into Univ. of Texas but somehow, this pasty chick manages to blame

1 black and 4 Hispanic kids for her being Rejected by a top-tier University because she couldn’t cut it academically.

Abagond, this sh’t has got to stop – white Americans are officially Off the rails with their blame game!

I think it’s time black people in America took off the gloves and started hitting back hard

White America needs to be reminded why their APARTHEID laws were made illegal in the first place.

Trump is seen as an embarrassing joke by many, which is one of his greatest strengths. People keep laughing at him and giving him exposure. I admit I am guilty of it myself sometimes. But it’s dangerous because it gives him exposure and treats him as a joke while he keeps earning points and spreading his venom left and right.

In reference to Affirmative Action and Abigail Fischer I love what the black students at University of Texas in Austin did when they created the hashtag #StayMadAbby. I screamed like a banshee it was too funny.

I think Trumpism has to be seen in the context of similar developments in some parts of Europe. Of course there are national differences, but overall the conservative establishment in the West seems to be in crisis.

Don Trump Jr. said he would happily pay for some of his father’s black critics to leave the United States.

The Republican presidential candidate’s son appeared Monday morning with his brother, Eric Trump, on “Fox and Friends” to discuss the “Super Tuesday” primary elections and the concerted attacks on their father by his GOP rivals.

“You know, it’s sad to see,” Eric Trump said of the attacks. “We love our father. He’s an amazing guy — he would do such an unbelievable job for this country. He’s an amazing businessman, he’s an amazing negotiator. He’s funding himself, right?”

I have noticed that it’s mostly poor uneducated white people who support him. Lots of them are white supremacist like David Duke who Trump said he knew nothing about and everyone knows Trump lies when he says he knows nothing about David Duke. I was watching the news and Trump was talking about the size of his hands and his sex organ, that’s so disgusting. He is just deplorable. And his toupee is ridiculos and he’s orange. Why does he always look jaundiced?

It is the stupid fools such as myself when thinking about the USA, that at least in this day and age, that some of most important imperatives in the world today would be addressed and righted: restoration of ALL rights and amends to the Original People of America and reparations for African Americans.

But, no. America could possibly have this monstrosity as President. Very,very frightening – for the people of America and for the rest of the world.

I can’t bear to look at his hideous face, that face reflecting the ugliness of the racial attitudes of white America. Not that much different from his female opposition, though. Devil in drag with a better hairdo and filter.

My sense is that Trump is going to get the Republican nomination. He has openly embraced the bigotry that lay mostly hidden within the white pooulation. Even the “Christian right” have chosen Trump over Cruz who is one of their own. It’s like the Christian right has become the Christian white.

The Republican establishment would normally not have a problem with this but I think they are worried about Trump’s economic populism which is aimed at going after the “free traiders” and Wall Street. While Bernie wants to tax them more Trump wants to renegotiate free trade agreements which will cause some economic calamity within the stock market.

I think at this point the Republican establishment would rather have Hillary as president over Trump because it’s about preserving the economic power base that both the Democrats and Republicans rely on.

Well Trump’s stop and go in Chicago let those miscreants know what time it was. Those folks wasn’t having none of b.s. I personally couldn’t put myself in harms way trying to protest that vermin Trump but to each his own. Trump is a cancer that needs to be eradicated he is poison and will drag this country to hell.

I wrote a post here long ago, I don’t remember which thread, talking about the cyclic nature of the manifestations of American racism and how apparent gains by marginalized groups are usually followed by the intensification of overt racism. For example, political and economic gains by blacks during Reconstruction, was followed by a resurgence of the KKK.

With that in mind, I am not at all surprised by the visibility of Trump in this election cycle. We saw the narrative becoming more overtly racist during Obama’s presidency. Trump is just the Tea Party with all pretense dropped. He is explicitly saying things that others thought but would only utter in coded language, if at all. He has eschewed “political correctness” and became a hero for many who bristled at the notion that certain statements had become taboo.

Despite how extreme he seems, he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing and, by doing so, he threatens to win the nomination. The delegates prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private.

President Trump would certainly be wake-up-call for those who might have read more into Obama’s Presidency than they should have.

“…he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing…The delegates [and the Republican base] prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private.”

I’m sure that explains the orgiastic displays at Trump rallies. The breaking of taboo. The adreneline jolt of naked White Supremacy. The intoxicating belief that they shall reign supreme über alles.

Yet, the base is too deep in their drugged stupor to notice that the people who point and yell, negro, negro or immigrant, immigrant are the same people who shipped their jobs overseas, destroyed local small town economies and saddled their children with crushing student loan debt.

Wealthy Whites have been looting their poor relations (and everyone else) for decades and laughing all the way to the bank. That won’t change no matter what the rightwing base does to the hated “others”.

Those were eloquent words, and certainly Trump has racist supporters just like everyone else, but I fail to see how he’s any more racist than any other candidate in the race.

The media and the Democrat establishment are up to their same old tricks of trying to label him as racist to scare away black and Latino voters. It has worked well since his support among these groups has dropped since last year.

But I believe the real reason Trump remains popular is because he is anti-establishment and unlike all the other career politicians who are running, not because he’s racist.

And when he exposes Hillary for the phony progressive she is currently pretending to be and reminds voters how she and Slick Willy actually implemented a lot of racist policies that are responsible for the high incarceration rate of blacks today, I am confident people will see that the Clintons are the real racists and Trump has been unfairly demonized by the media.

@Herneith

What about the actual infiltration of Democrats at Trump rallies?

Moveon.org/George Soros and Media Matters for America are huge supporters of Democrats and have paid people to disrupt Trump events. The result is the media frames it to appear that Trump people are violently attacking minorities for no reason. How much do they report the attempted attacks on Trump and others by these disruptors at these rallies?

@Herneith
Even though Hilary is no angel he makes her look good in comparison.

@resw
It’s easy to attack others’ record esp. when you’re relatively immune. Trump has a rather limited political record for others to criticize while Clinton has been in politics for a while so he clearly has an advantage in that department. Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country.

I consider Trump to be a demagogue. I dont’ consider him to be the only racist; I even metaphorically suggested that the others are too. However, their appeals to the racism of the base isn’t as naked as Trump’s. This “birther” can’t really be sanitized IMO. He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans while having a pageant that is popular in those countries. He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president.

Trump may not have a record in politics, but the media has taken him to task for just about every questionable remark he’s ever made.

If anyone is immune, it’s Hillary Clinton. The media refuses to pick apart her questionable comments of the past or check on her blatant lies.

“Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country”

Sure it is when the establishment has done nothing but 1) rack up deficit, 2) add to the national debt, 3) enter unfair trade agreements and 4) have not controlled illegal immigration and the drug trafficking. What Trump is promising is to address those things, and his supporters believe that would be both “practical and best for the country.”

“He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans ”

That kind of statement lets me know how just powerful the media is. I’ve never heard him say anything disparaging about Latin Americans, but I have heard the media and liberals tell me that Trump is racist against Mexicans and Latinos. I’m still waiting to see the quote.

“He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president”

So Americans should keep electing the same career politicians who have reduced America’s middle class, given them all a huge debt burden that can never be repaid, shipped jobs overseas, made it hard to do business, avoided investment in infrastructure and continuously entered costly wars that have destabilized the world.

Earlier this week, Chauncy DeVega posted a detailed account of the scene of Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago. What stood out to me is his description of Trump’s African American supporters and their possible motivations:

“In every crowd of Republicans there is almost always a black person who is auditioning for a role as “best black friend” and human chaff for the GOP. These professional contrarians are desperate for their five minutes of fame on Fox News; they yearn to be a 21st century version of Stephen in the movie “Django Unchained,” for it is very lucrative work if one can get it.

I saw several black conservatives at Trump’s event. One sat near me and cheered wildly at any mention of Il Duce Trump’s name. He seemed very pleased when the Black Lives Matter and other protesters were escorted out by the police.

There was a young professional black conservative in training who led one of the most spirited moments of near fisticuffs inside the UIC Pavilion. He was the black chieftain for a group of white college-age Trumpeteers who tried to pick a fight with a group of anti-Trump protesters.

The third black conservative was the most enthusiastic and dangerous one. He was outside of the UIC Pavilion. A former Marine, he chased away two high-school-age Black Lives Matter protesters and threatened to teach them a lesson via the thrashing he promised they would receive for being “disrespectful.”

I asked him about what had just transpired. I was also curious as to why he supported Donald Trump.

This well-trained black conservative responded with disinformation talking points from Fox News about a military that is weaker than it was before World War II, how Democrat-controlled cities are horrible and full of death, that Black Lives Matter does not care about “black on black crime,” young people are out of control, and no one respects the police anymore”.

“…no one respects the police anymore.” That was a real kicker in the same city (Chicago) where the police and their allies in city government have sanctioned and covered up numerous cases of police torture and murder.

It seem those Black “conservatives” are little more that White Supremacists with a deep genetic suntan.

Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics (except possibly as a lobbyist/briber) compared to Clinton, who was even First Lady. However Trump is quite a wealthy man, (and Clinton is a wealthy woman). I doubt he’s going to push policies that limit Wall Steet or his own wealth. The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me. He’s just a skilled demagogue. Businesses associated with him have also been accused of hiring undoccumented immigrants for cheap labor while he adopts the stance of being tough on immigration on the campaign trail. He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products (the pageant). I don’t think he has the proper temperament to be President.

I don’t like Trump (as a potential president…though his willingness to curse/fire back can be entertaining). I think he presents as divisive and irascible. I’ll own that opinion even if it happens to coincide with that of the so-called mainstream or establishment. I really don’t care about the latter point. I don’t watch much TV or consume much mainstream media.

White disrupters get ejected from Trump rallies too. The media is so good because most anti-Trump folks I talk to only know about the black Black Lives Matter people and a couple of Muslims (who also were disrupting). Well many white Bernie Sanders infiltraters have been thrown out. Probably more than black BLM protesters.

@Origin

“Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics…However Trump is quite a wealthy man”

That is completely irrelevant. He is not running on his political experience like every other candidate, he is clearly running on his business acumen and telling supporters that career politicians are bad for America. That is the epitome of anti-establishment.

“The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me”

Please tell me when Trump said he has a lot in common with “ordinary Americans,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. Maybe he did, but my guess is he never said that.

And what poll shows his supporters think he has a lot in common with ordinary Americans?

Most of his supporters are probably well aware that he’s a billionaire and his father was a millionaire.

“He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products”

Not sure what you mean exactly, but before he decided to run, let’s not forget politicians on both sides of the aisle liked Trump.

But if you think Trump’s bad, Hillary Clinton called Republicans her enemies. How’s that for diplomacy?

I’m sure anyone who dissents from Trump and his base are subject to removal from his rallies. That in itself is extremely disturbing.

When America was a democratic society, simple dissent was expected. Politicians knew they had to face public criticism and dealt with it—-not any more. Now the political class believe they are above criticism and the law. All politicians tend to surround themselves with yes people and expect rigid obedience from the general public.

Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. The video showed a person who seemed coerced. The closed body language, a hat obscuring his face and the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points was not a very convincing performance.

I’m sure the same can be said about black Clinton supporters and black Democrats in general.

“Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. ”

Right, he’s so right wing he supported Obama.

Here’s what he once said about his party affiliation:

“I’m a Republican, because we don’t all need to be in the Democratic party. Thirty years ago, there was not a black person in the Democratic party. The Republicans ignore us, and the Democrats take us for granted…Most blacks are conservative whether you know it or not. We believe in prayer in school and we’re against abortion. We should be in both parties and make them what we want them to be. We can’t get anywhere pointing fingers, we have to get inside the organization and make it what we want it to be.”

LOL@ “The video showed a person who seemed coerced”

Should I assume you are a psychiatrist and it’s proper to diagnose people online?

“the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points”

You do realise that the “rightwing talking points” are decidedly anti-Trump.

So I guess 90% of black voters who vote Democrat are “professional best black friends” too. Otherwise they wouldn’t be members of the Democrat party which is and has always been dominated by whites (and has historically been pro racist policies).

“Black people need their own party with an independent agenda and no allegiance to any outside group.”

He is against the neocon/neolibetal idea of nation building. So it is more like a scorched earth policy where we secure oil resources and the rest of the affected area be dammed.

Neocon’s both on the left (Hillary) and right belive in pre-emptive strikes which is why we are stuck in low intensity conflicts and perpetual war. It keeps the oil and other resources flowing while justifying spending trillions in the military budget.

His idea that we need to build a “stronger defense”
and that Obama has done nothing to strengthen the military aren’t factual. Apparently the Philippines has agreed to allow the U.S. to set up five new military bases their. Obama has expanded military bases in both Africa and Asia so he has been shoring up American Imperialism.

I also think Trump will do well in the general election. Hillaries disapproval ratings are higher the 50% and Americans themselves are for more bigoted then the polls show. Trump is also bringing out a whole new group of voters, some Republican, some Democrat and 100,000’s of new voters that have never voted before.

In Costa Mesa he filled a 7000 seat auditorium and their were 2000 people outside that couldn’t get in. This is in liberal California. He has found a market and knows how to sell it.

I also think this is the year the Green Party will become somewhat relevant. That is where the Bernie supporters are going to end up. The young people in this country have rejected the historical attachments their parents have always clung on too. This year they will our preform the Libertarians.

Another clue is the concentration of White hate groups in California. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map, California has a large number of hate groups for a western state:https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

Surprise, surprise! Most of the hate groups are clustered in the same areas of California that have large communities of non-European descent people: the Bay Area, the Central Valley and the Los Angeles to San Diego Corridor.

California is a state where the Whitopia Fortress mentality is particularly strong. Large numbers of White residents in California have developed a modern version of the “sundown town” —with or without gates—to escape areas that have burgeoning populations of:

❍ Latinos of any ethnicity

❍ Asian Americans (including West Asians from Afghanistan, South Asians from India and Pakistan and South East Asians from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand)

Whitopia author, Richard Benjamin recounts that at one of the Whitopias he lived in, he attended a White Supremacist retreat which prompted this reaction from another attendee:

“…Abe, an Aryan, sidled up next to me,”… ‘He said, ‘Hey, Rich, I just want you to know one thing. We are not white supremacists. We are white separatists. We don’t think we’re better than you, we just want to be away from you.’

The prison system, the hate groups and the Whitopia fortress towns are all linked together in a system of oppression, control, violence, privilege and profit-making at the expense of California’s non-White population.

Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. It reads like something out of a comedy show:

Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the U.S. for a meeting. He dismissed criticism over his willingness to negotiate with the North Korean dictator, who is known for lashing out against the West, threatening to use nuclear weapons, and repressing his own citizens. According to Trump, there is nothing wrong with having a conversation with the tyrant—though he shouldn’t be expecting dinner. “If he came here, I’d accept him. But I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off,” Trump said at a campaign event in Atlanta. He also took the opportunity to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian military is “much stronger” than its U.S. counterpart. “Our nuclear is old and tired and his nuclear is tippy-top from what I hear. Better be careful, folks, OK? You better be careful,” he said.

What’s so stupid about trying to end the war of aggression the USA launched against North Korea in the 1950’s? Where’s the wisdom in trying to start a war with Russia? This, to me, is the one proposal Trump makes that I approve of.

Oh, I agree there’s nothing stupid about ending this longstanding war of aggression against North Korea or starting one with another country such as Russia or China. The comedy derives from the promulgator of these ideas. He’d try to sell you swamp land if he could. I don’t believe him or other politicians. Once they attain office, it’s a different story. They spout off what they think their potential constituents want to hear in order to get elected. Trump is particularly goofy though.

Trump is a Fascist. Their is no other way to describe it. He has tapped into this ugly Nativist undertow that’s xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic. Large swaths of the American public crave for an Authoritarian leader who will rule by executive order. This is a partial list but highlights actions that point to Fascism.

1. Trump wants to deport 11 million humans and create a special deportation force to knock down doors and check papers. He will bypass courts and Congress through executive order.
2. Trump want to force American businesses like Apple to make their products here. He wants to add special taxes and regulate companies like Amazon to break them up. He wants to punish entrepreneurship to “create jobs”.
3. Trump will crack down on the Free Press. He already banned the Washington Post by revoking their press credentials. He will use the FCC to fine his critic, Rich Lowry. He will open up libel laws to silence his critics.
4. Trump’s xenophobic descriptions of Mexican immigrants as rapists and murders collectives all Hispanics.
5. Trump has no idea what Black Lives Matters stands for nor is he interested.
6. Trump says the police are just “misunderstood” and has no empathy for the victims of police violence.
7. Trump says he opposes Hillary’s foreign policy yet he will expand it in the “war on terror” and use the military no differently then neo liberals or neo cons. Wants to send more troops to the Middle East. Somehow its O.K. if he does it.
8. Trump will bring back water boarding and torture as well as kill the family members of suspected terrorists.
9. Trump wants all Muslims to register in a national registry and will put all Mosques under surveillance.
10. Trump wants to restart warrentless searches and allow drones to spy on American citizens.
11. Trump encourages violence against protesters and has a personal business history of discriminating against Blacks.

Some of his wilder-sounding statements are true, yet some of his more plausible-sounding ones are false or the truth is stretched and misleading.

In general, he seems to strip context, cherry pick and, worst of all, make dangerous trends out of one year’s or one city’s data. A good example of that is the Ferguson Effect, which he seems to believe in:

“We’re going to put an end to that,” Trump said during a post-convention interview with The New York Times. “We’re going to federalize every police department in this country. We’re going to eliminate the red tape and it’s going to give police the ability to do their jobs effectively and, believe me, this is something that’s going to happen within my first one hundred days in office.” -Donald Trump neo facist

The situation in Russia and the Ukraine is extremely complex and murky. There are a lot of international players meddling in that region. Ukraine has a strategic geopolitical position and assets that certain wolves are eager to strip from the people.

“Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed. We just got to break the system.”

When it came to race, he jumps to explain: “My ex-wife is black. I have hired plenty of blacks to work for me. I am not a racist. Trump is not the racist. Hillary is the racist, only standing up for women and blacks.”

So, the wealthy are sucking their lifeblood, growing obese on government subsidies and tax breaks… and they blame people three times poorer and less powerful than them for making the “country fall apart, from the bottom up”.

They are so mired in their “kiss up, kick down” politics that they can’t see that HRClinton doesn’t care any more for women or Black people than she does them. Being ignored and disrespected is such a new feeling for the White working class that it is driving them bonkers.

They need to take a ticket and get in line. They still have further to fall and Trump will only grease the skids on the way down. But they will probably enjoy the fall more if “… the N-word is thrown around with ease, and racial jokes are par for the course”.

“Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed.”

These so-called lazy people (code for negroes) feeding off the government didn’t sign off on political trade agreements and policies that sent American manufacturing jobs overseas to increase corporate profits.

That’s called aligning yourselves against your own interests, white folks. Could the rich get richer if they weren’t sucking the life-blood out of the common people? The country isn’t in this predicament because of lazy people. It’s because of the insatiable greed of those in power.

Idiots like this person quoted above somehow cannot see the divide and conquer tactic at work, yet they believe that they’re supposedly endowed with higher brain function and more intelligence than those they call “lazy.” Unbelievable!

“He argues that the Republicans of 1860 and those of 2016 are basically the same thing, and ditto for the Democrats.”

That the Democrat platform is different does not change the fact that it is the same party that supported slavery and Jim Crow. And yes, the party and the Democratic National Committee that governs it, are the same legal entities. As you may know, there is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity.

Both the Democrat party and DNC have never been punished for supporting crimes against humanity. They have never recompensed their victims. They have never even brought themselves to apologise to minorities because they’ve conned the public into believing that because they’re “progressive” the their past crimes against humanity are somehow absolved. Of course you’re all sadly mistaken.

What is fascist about deporting people who go to the US illegally? It may be very nationalist or populist but I don’t see what’s fascist about it.

@abagond

“But part of me is glad because, barring the unforseen, he pretty much sank his campaign for good.”

I wouldn’t count him out. This is far from over. All we need now is another major atrocity committed by an “illegal alien” or Muslim, and Trump will benefit “bigly” in the polls. You saw what happened last year. Trump’s poll numbers increased a lot after the Paris and San Bernadino attacks.

Because it requires an expansion of State power. Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office. That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal”. It will require Hispanics and all immigrants to carry papers to “prove” they have a right to be here. Due process will not be adhered too which violates civil liberties laid out in the Constitution.

The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest. The Constitution is meant to protect individuals from harassment both from groups and State agents.

My friend Anthony Gregory writes that “The Constitution empowers Congress to regulate naturalization; the process by which the government determines who is a citizen. It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration; the process by which individuals freely choose to move from one country to another. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows for border checkpoints and an INS and a cumbersome process to determine whether someone can merely reside here legally. Legal residency is a natural right, not a civil privilege like citizenship and voting rights. Many people live legally within the US without being citizens. Under the Constitution—and more important, under libertarianism as well as under natural law morality—anyone who can physically get to the territory currently ruled by the US government has the right to be here without being harassed by the state. That doesn’t mean the right to vote or receive welfare. But it does mean the right to live here, get a job, and pursue happiness. Under the Constitution and moral law, someone born in Mexico or Norway has just as much right to move to California and peacefully acquire a job and place to rent as does someone who was born in Nebraska.”

“Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office.”

Centralizing government functions like policing is not fascist per se. Many liberal countries have nationalized police forces. But the US President doesn’t really have the power to do that unilaterally.

“That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal””

That’s a different issue than centralizing police. But as a matter of fact police already profile. They do it everyday. They’re trained to do it.

I’m not convinced local police departments are going to change their existing practices as a result of a Trump presidency.

“The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest”

He may think there’s red tape, but police already perform illegal searches, seizures and false arrests. And even murder. They get away with it every day. Even in the bastion of liberals, New York (city), where they overwhelmingly supported the unconstitutional racial profiling and illegal searches of blacks and browns, and where cops who murder unarmed blacks go unpunished.

And let’s not forget “progressive” President Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act which permits the indefinite detention of any suspected terrorist.

“It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration”

I tend to agree in theory, except some would say this power is derived under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10.

“When Marco Gutierrez, a founder and spokesman for the little-known and sparsely populated advocacy group “Latinos for Trump” recently tried to warn America of the grave dangers of open borders and free migration with the image of “taco trucks on every corner,” most views, Latino and Anglo alike, seem to have experienced a vision of a possible new utopia. The tag immediately trended on Twitter, not in panic but in near-universal celebration of the possibility.”

This article exposes more then that. One of the obstacles that keep immigrants and those who are not white from starting small businesses and upward mobility are city and state license fees that often times are their to favor white populations and developers.

Trumps intent on deporting over 11 million “illegal aliens”. There is a president for this that was started under the Hoover administration and carried into FDR term over a seven year period. It is estimated that upwards of 2 million people were detained and deported without due process and about half of them American born U.S. citizens.

Colin Kaepernick draws ire from white Americans because he calls attention to America’s denial of white privilege, police brutality against black people and people of color, and the lack of opportunity for those same people and get demonized for protesting injustice. Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture?

” Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture?”

@Mary

I’ll take a stab at this: Never underestimate the power of stupidity of certain people in large groups!

Trump’s chances of being elected are looking more and more possible every day.
I heard a rumor that the DNC is thinking about substituting Michelle Obama for Clinton if Clinton’s health disqualifies her from continuing.

The movie also depicts the “Zoot Suit Riots” in Los Angeles in 1943. White soldiers and sailors attacked Chicano men who dressed in distinctive “Zoot Suits”. According to History.com:

“..the jazz-inspired outfits were particularly popular among the city’s Mexican American population. Latino youths known as “Pachucos” caused a sensation by donning zoot suits, pork pie hats and dangling watch chains, and it wasn’t long before their eye-catching garb earned them an overblown reputation as street thugs and juvenile delinquents. Tensions grew especially high between zoot-suiters and the large contingent of white sailors and Marines stationed in Los Angeles. Mexican Americans were serving in the military in high numbers, but many servicemen viewed the zoot-suit wearers as World War II draft dodgers. Since wool and other textiles were subject to wartime rationing, they also considered the oversized suits an unpatriotic waste of resources.

The racially charged atmosphere finally led to full-scale riots in early June 1943. Following a series of bloody street brawls between zoot-suiters and white soldiers, a mob of U.S. servicemen took to the streets in taxicabs and began attacking Latinos and stripping them of their suits. Thousands more servicemen and civilians joined the fray over the next several days, often marching into cafes and movie theaters and beating anyone wearing Pachuco clothing or hairstyles. Blacks and Filipinos—even those not clad in zoot suits—were also targeted. Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and police generally restricted their arrests to the Latinos who fought back. The mayhem didn’t die down until June 8, when U.S. military personnel were finally barred from leaving their barracks. The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits the following day. Amazingly, no one was killed during the weeklong riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence. Similar incidents took place that same year in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit. “

“So let me get this straight: I, a conservative female, have spent years defending the Republican Party against claims of sexism. When I saw Republican men getting attacked I stood up for them. I came to their defense. I fought on their behalf. I fought on behalf of a movement I believed in.
I fought on behalf of my principles while other women told me I hated my own sex. Not only charges of sexism, but I defended @marcorubio during Go8, I fought in my state to stop the @ScottWalker recall, etc… Now some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the @GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out? He treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I – and other female conservatives – said you were & back down like cowards.
Get this straight: We don’t need you to stand up for us, YOU needed to stand up for us for YOU. For YOUR dignity. For YOUR reputation. Jeff Sessions says that he wouldn’t “characterize” Trump’s unauthorized groping of women as “assault.”
Are you kidding me?!
Others try to rebuke his comments, yet STILL choose to vote for a sexual predator – because let’s be honest, that’s what he is. “What he said is wrong, and the way he treats women is wrong, but it’s not wrong enough for me to not vote for him.”
Thanks, cowards.
Various men in the movement are writing it off as normal, confirming every stereotype the left has thrown at them. So I’m done. I’m sooo done.
If you can’t stand up for women & unendorse this piece of human garbage, you deserve every charge of sexism thrown at you. I’m just one woman, you won’t even notice my lack of presence at rallies, fair booths, etc. You won’t really care that I’m offended by your silence, and your inability to take a stand. But one by one you’ll watch more women like me go, & you’ll watch men of ACTUAL character follow us out the door.
And what you’ll be left with are the corrupt masses that foam at the mouth every time you step outside the lines. Men who truly see women as lesser beings, & women without self-respect. And your “guiding faith” & “principles” will be attached to them as well. And when it’s all said and done, all you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being.
Scum.”

“And what you’ll be left with are the corrupt masses that foam at the mouth every time you step outside the lines. Men who truly see women as lesser beings, & women without self-respect. And your “guiding faith” & “principles” will be attached to them as well. And when it’s all said and done, all you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being.”

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Oh please … cry me a river!!!

Too few tears, and way too late!

The Amerikan political system had an opportunity to redeem itself during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. The senate decided to look the other way despite all of the evidence pointing to Clinton’s guilt. The Amerikan people also agreed with the senate’s decision.

Any (systemic) rot/cancer left remaining (untreated) within a body will eventually infect/overtake/spread into the rest of the body.

The untreated diseased body then cannot recover from its overwhelming multiple cancers. Rot can’t be permitted to remain and fester, whether it starts in the foot – or the head.

Highly doubtful. That’s like asking Mr Potato Head if he can make any sense, or answer a simple question!

Maybe.. if he uses the most super-fortified can of hair spray known to mankind (Aquanet) and the wind is nowhere to be found!

He should probably buy a blond hair WEAVE and just be done with it!

Or sport a new look… an Issac Hayes, Steve Harvey, Mike Tyson hair (less) do. I do think he needs a tan (some coloring to offset that ghastly Eddie Muster pale …) a lot more than he needs to keep his hair in place.

So Trump wanys to bring the hammer down on pot smokers. Supposedly there is a “report” that links marijuana users to violent crime. Any report that makes such a claim is schewd towards law enforcement.

Expect everybody but whites to experience the blunt of this. (No pun intended)

“According to research from the nonprofit monitoring group Airwars, the first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian deaths than under the entirety of the Obama administration. Airwars reports that under Obama’s leadership, the fight against IS led to approximately 2,300 to 3,400 civilian deaths. Through the first seven months of the Trump administration, they estimate that coalition air strikes have killed between 2,800 and 4,500 civilians.”

“Researchers also point to another stunning trend – the “frequent killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes.” In May, for example, such actions led to the deaths of at least 57 women and 52 children in Iraq and Syria.”

Watching the CBS Evening News and they showed a horrific photo of a Salvadoran and his young child face down in the Rio Grande. These are “human beings “ seeking asylum trying to escape horrendous conditions found in their country, whose problems have been exacerbated by Western polices. This is a humanitarian crisis that one person in the White House has grown with his xenophobic rhetoric plus his lack of empathy.

That may be true, and you know I’m no Trump apologist, but that’s just one of many side effects of him being the most unqualified president ever.

People opposed to him like to point to stuff like that because they think being unqualified is something that should get him replaced whereas being unqualified is part of what got him elected in the first place. Certainly not the only thing, but it’s also not seen as detrimental to his supporters. They see him rapidly replacing staff as a form of learning and adapting. In fact, not being bogged down with the optics of replacing staff is seen as taking the kinds of quick and decisive actions that they assume business leaders take. That’s what they elected… a businessman instead of a politician. He’s free to make mistakes as long as he doesn’t allow them to linger. In marketing terms, his administration is “nimble” because it can react and change rapidly. They love that.

Even with the threat of impeachment it probably won’t make a difference with Trump’s sycophantic cult following. And I am thinking the Republicans in the Senate are not going to support an impeachment. Just like the Mueller Report it probably won’t have an effect on the election in 2020. I hope I am wrong about all of this. I would like nothing more than to see him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

@Mary
I’d say there’s a zero percent chance the Senate has any plans to vote in favor of impeachment unless and until we start seeing the Republican establishment promoting an alternative… i.e. Fox News suddenly running all kinds of “Hey, this guy might give Trump a run for his money” stories. They will most likely will do everything they can to delay the vote until after the 2020 elections. After 2020, whether they retain control of the Senate or not, the outcome of the election will have been determined and if Trump wins, the Republicans keep the presidency.

In other words, they’ll stick with him until he’s so toxic that many republicans start indicating that they’ll switch sides or abstain. Until then, they’ve got nothing to lose, they want a republican in the White house and they probably don’t care if it’s Pence after the election. He just doesn’t have the draw to run on his own, so they’ll stick with Trump and hope for the win.

I’ve said it before though, I think once Trump is out, the establishment, most of his base and the country in general will pile on him. His rise to power was such a media spectacle that his fall will be equally spectacular. His base will blame him for ruining their party, making a mockery of their agenda, bankrupting the economy, costing them all 3 branches of government and pretty much every other thing that goes wrong in the wake of his presidency. They will feel like they took a chance on him and he squandered it. They will have lost friendships, permanently damaged family relationships and will only have a MAGA hat to show for it. They will want revenge.

I could be wrong on that, but if I know one thing, it’s that Americans love drama and watching bad things happen to entitled rich people. I envision the finale of his reality TV presidency to be epic.

I suppose you have a point about the word betrayal implying that he understands what loyalty means. Although he demands “loyalty “ from his subordinates. He has no moral compass and I suppose that is one of the symptoms of his narcissistic personality.

Wasn’t betraying the Kurds inevitable? I’ll admit ignorance here, but was there ever a time that we didn’t abandon locals we’ve enlisted to assist us in whatever proxy war or destabilization effort or regime change agenda we’ve embarked upon?

2nd thought: Trump may not really have the stomach for fighting someone else’s war, but it seems to me that his actions have set the stage for us to wind up fighting a battle of his own making (one of his hallmarks is creating problems and then claiming victory when he solves them). What’s the history on re-electing presidents when actively engaged in a war? (Hint: http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=19187)

Trump used the word “lynching” I wonder if this was some type of dog whistle to get his zombie sycophant supporters to act out. Like much of his rhetoric he’s very irresponsible and evil. With these impeachment hearings pending, perhaps this is way to distract. I suppose this is no different from all the other irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric with.